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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
He won the prize for his “tireless work in promoting the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people,” said the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
He called her a “champion of peace” working to loosen the Venezuelan government’s “rigid grip on power.”
“Democracy depends on people… daring to come forward despite grave risks,” he said.
This year there were 338 candidates running for the Peace Prize, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, 52 more than last year.
The identities of Nobel nominees are kept secret for 50 years.
Last year, the Japanese peace organization Nihon Hidankyo received the award for its efforts to promote a world free of nuclear weapons, using the testimonies of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Prize winners in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature have already been named this week.
The week ends on Monday with the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.
All other Nobel Prizes are traditionally awarded in Stockholm, while the Peace Prize is awarded only in Oslo.
Each prize carries a cash prize of 11 million SEK ($1.1 million).
The prizes are formally presented at a ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the prizes (1833–1896).
